[Crop to specified width and height]

Another product bites the dust. Luckily CS3 still runs on El Capitan. It's just way to cumbersome to do simple things.

 

I also don't like the way text fields work. Settings don't stick, and there's no highlight/backspace to clear the field. So in Affinity:

 

Select Crop

Draw Crop Window -> Click

Document -> resize image

Highlight size , delete, delete, delete, delete, delete, delete, type in 600px

Click resize

Export

 

In Photoshop:

 

Select Crop (my crop width:600px is sticky)

Draw Crop Window -> click (auto resize to width of 600px)

Save for Web

 

Takes 3x longer to resize a perfect image that doesnt need adjustment

[Why can't I save as jpeg?]

Having it under Save As would be more intuitive. Why not make afphoto one of the choices and just have the export menu pop up with save as?

 

Copying all of the wrong things adobe has been doing for 20 years seems wrong. 20 years ago, you might have called saving a photo as a jpeg an "export", but in todays world you're just saving it in one of many possible formats.

[Any good tutorials]

I've found the tutorials with actual instructions. The default to rotate is pretty dumb if you ask me; rotating photos is something I do very infrequently.

 

The problem I actually had was not realizing that I had to "Develop" the RAW image before doing more extensive editing. I don't hate it this morning. The Lanczos 3 resizing does a VERY nice job. 

 

I may love it by day's end.....

[Any good tutorials]

After an hour of trying to figure out why the crop tool rotates the image and watching 3 tutorials that just zip through all kinds of operations without any explanation, I'm wondering how anyone can use this product. Are there any actual tutorials where you might learn how to use the tools? I've used Photoshop for 15 years so maybe I'm just set in my ways. But once I get past making raw adjustments I can't figure how how to do a single thing I want to do.

[Crop to specified width and height]

I'm in trial on v1.4. While I like the RAW integration, I can't figure out how do what I want with crop.

 

What I need it photoshops crop and resize. I can set a width, to say 600px, and then draw a crop window. It will crop and resize with the width set to 600. Our web site had all images at 600px with variable height. So this feature allows us to crop and resize in one operation. 

 

It's the reason I've stuck with photoshop for the last 10 years. Nobody else seems to be able to do it.